death of Enron, Ariana

[Jon Ford]

Connie-- I think just the top article he mentioned in his post was to be 
read, but Ariana has other interesting things to say about freedom of 
speech; for instance, in a column of three weeks ago on the trashing of Bill 
Maher:

"What becomes of a country when opinions considered perfectly legitimate -- 
and indeed uttered by hundreds of academics, journalists
and members of Congress -- suddenly become a crime worthy of the media death 
penalty?

If the attacks on innocent American lives end up making us more like our 
attackers, don't they most spectacularly win? And don't the
corporate sponsors, the affiliates and ABC itself see the inconsistency in 
the fact that, as a way of showing solidarity against the Taliban, they are 
using the Taliban's trademark weapon -- the stifling of dissent? Isn't 
freedom what we're fighting for? And isn't lack of freedom -- including 
freedom of the press -- the hallmark of our enemies?"

Good thought for you today, Connie-- and by the way, so far your "get rid of 
don" campaign is stuck at only 4 votes, so now its "reinstate" by a three to 
one margin (Today we have Mary Jane, Tary, Roger, Stephanie, etc. casting 
their "yes" for Don.

Jon


If Enron is dead, I'll dance on their grave. Maybe the enormous lawsuits 
filed against them by California gave their investors the willies. Whatever. 
Sorry of course for those who owned their stock


>From: Connie Clark <connie_3c@yahoo.com>
>To: austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
>Subject: In defense of Ewie and other questions
>Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 08:00:50 -0800 (PST)
>
>In my "In defense of Mike" post, I absolutely,
>inadvertently, left Bill Irwin off of the steller list
>of a-g-l quality contributors.  How could I?
>
>SIMMONS. What's with the Ariana BS web site?  Are we
>supposed to read the entire archive?  ;-}
>
>Roger and JB or anyone.  Do you have some inside poop
>on the demise of Enron's (the electrical powerbrokers)
>finances? Who is/was LJM?  What will the SEC find?
>Excerpt from Houston paper as follows:
>
>"Speculation is swirling that Enron is a takeover
>target for the likes of Royal Dutch/Shell, General
>Electric Co.'s GE Capital and others; could be sold
>off in pieces; or is a bankruptcy candidate."
>
>Their stock fell from $80 early this year to now about
>$13.
>
>Connie
>
>
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